The disappearance of Thomas Cook and its subsidiaries hit the tourism sector hard in some parts of Spain, and in response the government has opened lines of credit up to a maximum of 200 million euros for businesses affected in the regions of the Canaries, the Balearics, the Comunidad Valenciana, Catalunya and Andalucía. Murcia is not directly affected by the bankruptcy of Thomas Cook, but one of the measures introduced in other regions has been to reduce airport tariffs in an attempt to attract more flights, and as a by-product of the move the Region of Murcia International Airport in Corvera will also become a cheaper destination for airlines to fly to.

The lowering of tariffs will, of course, do nothing to divert traffic from the nearby airport of Alicante-Elche to Corvera as the same reduction applies at both, but it may just convince airlines to lay on flights from northern Europe to the Costa Cálida rather than to other destinations in and around the Mediterranean.